When comparing L.A. Noire vs Batman: Arkham Knight, the Slant community recommends Batman: Arkham Knight for most people. In the question“What are the best Action-Adventure games on Steam?”Batman: Arkham Knight is ranked 17th while L.A. Noire is ranked 27th. The most important reason people chose Batman: Arkham Knight is:

A large city comprised of three separate islands makes up the area playable in game. Which is huge, making for much to explore for the player.

Pros

Pro

Facial animation still some of the best in a game

One of the first games to use mocap recording for facial expressions in a game, which still holds up to this day as some of the best facial animation in a game. the sense of realism while watching the cutscenes really stands out.

Pro

Free form gameplay

L.A. Noire is an open-world game that allows the player to deviate off the story path and do what they like, which is freeing and fun in that one can just play around in their digital environment.

Pro

Large city to explore

A large city comprised of three separate islands makes up the area playable in game. Which is huge, making for much to explore for the player.

Pro

Ability to drive around the Batmobile

Arkham Knight has the open world aspect of the previous game but has now introduced the Batmobile for use on the street with a full weapon loadout. Being able to drive around thee streets of Gotham as well as use the vehicle to take down bad guys makes for an exciting experience not seen in the series before.

Pro

Supports arbitrary resolutions

Including 21:9 widescreen aspect ratio and 4K resolutions.

Cons

Con

Does not always feel cohesive

While all the gameplay mechanics work just fine, there is still a feeling as if there is something missing to the overall architecture of the game. Many elements feel pasted together structure wise.

Con

30 FPS cap

B:AK limited to running at 30 frames per second.

Con

Had been withdrawn from sale

Possibly the first release (certainly the first AAA release) to be digitally withdrawn from sale. Buyers were refunded.

It was reinstated months later, but the port was not much better and still had terrible performance issues.

Con

Awful performance

Con

Initially missed graphical features from the console versions

This makes it one of the PC ports where the console version released at the same time actually looked better.